Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-05-04
DAKOTA NEWS.

SnicaRo parties VIII locate Secon0
creamery at Gary.
= There are indications OF a county seat
fight in Brown County.
The salary OF the City Clerk q. Sioux
Falls is 81 900 year.
There ARE upwards Of $4,000 Cana lian
settlers in North Dakota.
ID. M. Donahey, of Elmunds County,
has planted $50 acres OF wheat.
Pierre is 10 have broom factory to be
operated on an extensive scale.
Work on the new cracker factory build
ing at Sioux Falls has commenced.
The Sioux Falls Marshall will 60 gum
ming for unlicensed dogs on the 10th Of
May.
Oliver Dalrymple. The bonansa fArmsr
of Dakota. will SOW 81, ,OGO acres OF wheat
this year.
An electric light tower is being erected
at Fargo and will be ready for use by the
Goth of May.
Rev. W. P. Craig was installel as pns-
tor Of the Presbyterian Church at Sioux
Falls recently.
The interstate commerce law has not
affected the freight rates at Pierre, as they
remain the same as formerly.
-R verdale is n new town plated at the
junction point of the Manitoba and North :
western roads, near Aberdeen.
Huron stands good show Of getting a
free mail delivery whenever she numbers
her houses and labels the streets.
SIX hundred patents have been re-
ceived at the Huron land Office, and will
be distributed as soon rs possible.
--Iroquois, always modest in its wants,
now desires painter, a paper hanger, q
dentist anl SOME one to build a mill.
A petition asking for the establish.
ment OF the free delivery system. in that
city, is being circulated at Sioux Falls.
Sioux Falls business men have decided
to incorporate board of trade and build q
three-sory building OF S oux Falls granite.
The printers of Aberdeen have formed
the Aberdeen Typographical union. OH
GERS have been elected aud charter sent
| for.
Charley Hunt, sent to the Sioux Falls
Penitentiary from Deadwood nine years
ago for manslaughter, was released re.
Gently.
The VIM. Deering Harvesting company
has decided to establish its general dis
tributipg house for south Dakota at
Mitch II.
"A scandinavian temperance weekly
has been started at Hillsboro, in North
Dakota. 1t has been named the Goose
Rirer Posten.
A committee of Fargo citizens will en-
deavor to raise bonus sufficiently large to
secure the location of the North Dakota
Congregational college at that place.
1t is foregone conclusion thar the
city of Aberdeen will vote for city hall
costing $4,000 at the special election Of
May Is, as the old building has become
grossly inadequate to the growing needs Of
the city government.
The crap outlook in Sphinx, Brown,
Day, Kingsbury and Beadle counties is re !.
| ported to be the most favorable yet
known. The farmers have finished seed :
ing and wheat is far enough out OF the
ground TO make good showing.
In the case of L. N. Parent, Of Bea-
| die, charged with incest with his
two daughters, confession was OBJ
tanned from the elder daughter by man
engaged by the prosecution, who proposed
marriage to her for the purpose.
The towns along the line of the North
western road between Watertown and
Brookings have petitioned the department
for the establishment of postal service on
that line, and ask that D. O. Fraser, OF
Watertown be appointed postal clerk.
The Lead City board of trade have
made contract with the Bittner Theater
company to play six-night engagement
at Lead, the proceeds 10 be donated TO the
Fourth Of July celebration fund. The
Tribune says the fund will also receive
$1,000 in subscriptions.
A colony of 200 people, mostly from
the little State of Vermont, will 10 ale in
Hettinger County this season. This .ounty
lies south Of Stark County on the trail run
ming from Dickinson to the Black Hills.
1t is we'll watered, and is said 10 contain a
large amount of excellent land.
Petitions to the district court for q
special election on the removal of th ,
county seat OF Brown county are being
circulated. Public interest is largely en-
| crossed by this question an | every indica-
ton shows that the largest vots ever relied
In tlie ouniy will be cast a. this Gle ,tion.
ID. P. Ward, Of Sioux Falls, is pre-
par ng two maps 10 be exhibited before the
! Internal onal Sunday school cony. ntion 10
be held in Chicago in June. O,e OF the
| maps shows the number and location OF
the Sunday schools in Dakota ten Yeas
ago. At that t.ms there were about fif v
! Sunday schools, all of which were Iocat "a
in eight or Ten of the southeastern conntie ,
of the Territory. The other map will
slow the location OF the LOCO sun.l.y.
schools now in successful operat on in Da-
kota- very good showing, by the way.
I'm eleciing d. s. Gldden w,rle OF
the Sioux Falls penitentiary, the Loard OF
directors won tie esteem anil he .rty en-
dorsement of every citizen who Is ac-
quaintcd with the generous, whole sou Q |
Dan" Mr.. Gliddsn is not oaly a wide-
awake, credi,abl, ID D.ko an, but hs is a
| gentleman of the highest typs. That hs
will prove competent. m cons :ention.
official the Tribune is conil,nt, AMI ex-
tends its congratulat oas upon his snccoss.
- Bismarck Tribune.
In the drug store window Of g. w.
Lowry of this city is geonp p;ctnrs OF a
| Hand County family cons.stinr Of fift .en